Emotional Intelligence Has 12 Elements. Which Do You Need to Work On? - HBR
Self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management - these are the 4 domains of emotional intelligence.
This is one of the classics – about emotional intelligence from Harvard Business Review.
Emotional Intelligence Has 12 Elements. Which Do You Need to Work On?
Key highlights:
People have high emotional intelligence is far more than just being nice, there are actually some downsides of being very emotionally intelligent.
Emotional intelligence can be defined as four domains: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management.
Self-awareness: emotional self-awareness
Self-management: include emotional self-control, adaptability, achievement orientation, and positive outlook.
Social awareness: include empathy and organisational awareness.
Relationship management: include influence, coach and mentor, conflict management, teamwork, and inspirational leadership.
To excel, leaders need to develop a balance of strengths across the suite of EI competencies.
To assess EI, simplest way is to review the 12 competencies in your mind to roughly get an idea about which areas need some development, or taking tests like MSCEIT or ESCI 360 from Korn Ferry.
